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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: The terrible wars between France and England, which wars are often explained by merely political causes, had a much…

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The terrible wars between France and England, which wars are often explained by merely political causes, had a much deeper meaning--an economical meaning.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin asserts that the wars between France and England had deeper economic implications beyond political causes.

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